{"id":2100705,"date":"2025-10-18T21:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2100705"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:46:44","slug":"bruno-mars-just-the-way-you-are-sets-new-riaa-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bruno-mars-just-the-way-you-are-sets-new-riaa-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars\u2019 \u201cJust the Way You Are\u201d Sets New RIAA Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height:220px;\">\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);\"><strong>Bruno Mars<\/strong> has just made music history. According to the latest RIAA certification update, the singer\u2019s 2010 hit \u201c<strong>Just the Way You Are<\/strong>\u201d has been certified <strong>21x Platinum,<\/strong> officially becoming the highest-certified single in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);\">The milestone means the song has sold an astonishing 21<strong> million units<\/strong> in the United States alone, surpassing Post Malone and Swae Lee\u2019s \u201c<strong>Sunflower<\/strong>\u201d, which previously held the record with a 2x Diamond certification (20 million units).<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"\/>\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-48323c4856622a30ebf271ef9d3980e0\"><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Posts\"\/>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"\/>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);\">The achievement marks another major milestone in Bruno Mars\u2019 already legendary career. \u201cJust the Way You Are\u201d was his debut solo single, released in August 2010 as the lead track from his first studio album, <strong><em>Doo-Wops &amp; Hooligans<\/em><\/strong>. Written and produced by Mars alongside Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Khalil Walton, and Needlz, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100, won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards, and helped launch Mars into global superstardom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);\">In addition to this landmark certification, Bruno Mars\u2019 catalog received several new updates on the RIAA database this week. Among the highlights:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 \u201cGrenade\u201d \u2013 16x Platinum<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 \u201cThe Lazy Song\u201d \u2013 Diamond (10x Platinum)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 \u201cMarry You\u201d \u2013 7x Platinum<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 \u201cTalking to the Moon\u201d \u2013 6x Platinum<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 \u201cCount On Me\u201d \u2013 5x Platinum<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 \u201cRunaway Baby\u201d \u2013 3x Platinum<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 \u201cLiquor Store Blues\u201d \u2013 Platinum<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 \u201cOur First Time\u201d \u2013 Gold<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2022 Doo-Wops &amp; Hooligans \u2013 9x Platinum<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);\">\u201c<strong>The Lazy Song<\/strong>\u201d\u2019s new <strong>Diamond<\/strong> certification brings Mars\u2019 total number of Diamond singles to seven, tying him with The Weeknd and Rihanna as the third artist with the most Diamond-certified songs in RIAA history.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-221722698-20785-68f40ac125e4c\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=15.2-a.1#blog_id=221722698&amp;post_id=20785&amp;origin=inmusicblog.com&amp;obj_id=221722698-20785-68f40ac125e4c\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-221722698-20785-68f40ac125e4c\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source inmusicblog.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Mars has just made music history. According to the latest RIAA certification update, the singer\u2019s 2010 hit \u201cJust the Way You Are\u201d has been certified 21x Platinum, officially becoming the highest-certified single in U.S. history. 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